Seminars 2025

AIC Lab seminar

Date: 13.03.2025

Speaker: Pavel Sulimov, Senior Quantum AI Researcher at Institute of Computer Science, Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Title: "Quantum Machine Learning in 2025: Myths & Facts"

Abstract: Classical deep learning is currently on a big hype, making a great path in last decade from GANs and AlphaGo to AI models with reasoning. But can we do even better, e.g. by enhancing AI with 100-year-old technology like quantum mechanics? What if we add phenomena like superposition, entanglement, and quantum parallelism into neural network, call it quantum neural network, and ... why should it be better than the classical one?

At the seminar we'll cover the basics of quantum machine learning, understanding the main analogies and differences with classical AI, and look into the advantages (like applications in drug discovery, financial markets, large images analysis etc.) and difficulties (like error mitigation, hardware limitations etc.). Some of the information on the Internet is true, some is not - but don't worry, except from just discovering myths and legends, we'll also "touch" the real IBM quantum computer, and see how it can be used already now.

Video of the seminar by the link.